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Once Upon A Time In High School
''Once Upon a Time in High School: The Spirit of Jeet Kune Do'' ( ko, 말죽거리 잔혹사) is a 2004 South Korean drama film. The background of the film is set in a high school in South Korea, 1978. The original Korean title literally means "cruel history of Maljuk street" and one of the filming locations was the present neighborhood of Yangjae-dong, Seocho District in Seoul. Synopsis Hyun-soo (Kwon Sang-woo), transfers to a school that is notorious for its poor outcomes and brutality. He joins a bottom-rank class and experiences violence by delinquents led by Jong-hoon ( Lee Jong-hyuk), a stereotypical Korean bully. The teachers are depicted as authoritarian and brutal (as was common up into the 1970s). On the bus, Hyun-soo sees and falls in love with Eun-joo ( Han Ga-in). When schoolboys start teasing her, Hyun-soo takes the opportunity to gain her respect, even though it starts a riot. After the two are chased and caught in their hiding place, one of Hyun-soo's friends Kim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yoo Ha
Yoo Ha (; or spelled Yu Ha; born February 9, 1963) is a South Korean film director, screenwriter and a contemporary poet. He directed the critically acclaimed films '' Marriage Is a Crazy Thing'' (2002), ''Once Upon a Time in High School'' (2004), '' A Dirty Carnival'' (2006) and ''Gangnam Blues'' (2015). The latter is a gangster movie with allusions to Martin Scorsese films like '' Gangs of New York'', ''Mean Streets'' and ''Goodfellas''. at Koreanfilm.org Filmography * ''A Day of Poet Goobo'' (short; 1990) * ''We Must Go to Apgujeong-dong on Windy Days'' (1993) * '' Marriage Is a Crazy Thing'' (2002) * '' |